Improvement in hay-racks



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WILSON SMITH, OF yTOD TOWNSHIP, OHIO.

` Letters Patent No. 83,561, dated October 27, 1868.

The Schedule refexred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saune.

To all whom it may conce-rn Be it known that I, VVILSOLY SMITH, oflod township, in the county of Crawford, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Method of Constructing Man gers with a SellAdjusting Rack thereon; and I do declare that thefollowing isla full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making apart of this specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the manger, with my pivoted rack thereon.

Figure 2 is a separate view ofthe rack, showing the manner in which it is pivoted.

The nature of my invention consists in providing mangers with a seliladiusting rack, which is vswung inside ofthe manger on pivots, and thus will save the `wasting of hay as the saine is consumed in stables by domestic stock.

Llo enable others skilled in the use and construction of mangers and stables, to nia-he and use my invention, I will proceed to `describe. its construction and i operation.

I construct my 'manger in the ordinary manner for feeding hay to stock; but in'order to obviate the waste V'of hay, by reason of the known habits of horses and structing it with a 'round gudgeonor shaft at each end, where it is set loosely into holes at A A, fig. 1, made at'the ends of the manger g, near the front and upper' sides thereof. The racl-r is constructed with horizontal side pieces a and cl,'between which are inserted perpendicular rungs b b b, at the proper distance apart to" admit the nose of a horse.

The rack, instead of being pivoted, as I have described, may be hinged to the inside of the manger g, by ordinary strap-hinges, but for cheapness and convenienee, I prefer wooden -cleats c c, with holes near the front ends thereof, in which to insert the rounded and projecting ends of the lower side piece, and hav ing setsaid ends in said holes, nail the cleats c c toV the inside and ends of said manger g, as shown in the drawings.

The rack is raised and swung back, so as to open.,

the manger, which is then filled with hay to any desired fulness, the rack swung forward again toward the attendant, ifI he stand onthe opposite side of theinanger from the horse, and the horse or other animaly A't one or both ends of the manger, I place atroughV` 'er troughs, f, in which toput corn 0r oats, or any feed :other than hay or straw, or such' like long feed, and

between these troughs, if tw'o are used, or between the trough and the opposite end of the manger, if ,only one is used, the rack above described is attached and swings.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secur by Letters Patent, isl* l. The rack, composed of side pieces a and d, and the rungs or cross-pieces l) b b, when applied to mangers, by hinging or attaching it to the top of said manger, and at the side next to the animal that feeds therefrom, substantially shown and described.

2. The combination of manger g, the rack a b b d, and feed-trough or troughs j' f, all as shown and def scribed.

WILSON SMITH.

Vitnesses:

S. R. HARRIS, T. H.'WIGG1NS. 

